Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A track from the CD compilation "Beautiful Music - Volume 2" issued in 1998.
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"Picking Up Pebbles" was first recorded and released in 1968 by its writer, Johnny Curtis.
It gained massive popularity later that same year via a famous cover by South African singer Cornelia.
In 1969, Australian singer Matt Flinders also released a highly successful cover version that became a major hit in Australia.
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Matt Flinders (born Sylvan Louis Bonett c. 1937, Alexandria, Egypt) is a former singer and TV presenter who rose to prominence in the late 1960s in Australia.
He had top 5 hit singles with his cover versions of "Picking Up Pebbles" (1969) and "Butterfly" (1971).
He hosted his own variety shows, The Matt Flinders Show (1972) and Matt Flinders and Friends (1973) on ABC-TV.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
A track from the CD compilation "Beautiful Music - Volume 2" issued in 1998.
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"Picking Up Pebbles" was first recorded and released in 1968 by its writer, Johnny Curtis.
It gained massive popularity later that same year via a famous cover by South African singer Cornelia.
In 1969, Australian singer Matt Flinders also released a highly successful cover version that became a major hit in Australia.
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Matt Flinders (born Sylvan Louis Bonett c. 1937, Alexandria, Egypt) is a former singer and TV presenter who rose to prominence in the late 1960s in Australia.
He had top 5 hit singles with his cover versions of "Picking Up Pebbles" (1969) and "Butterfly" (1971).
He hosted his own variety shows, The Matt Flinders Show (1972) and Matt Flinders and Friends (1973) on ABC-TV.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
